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Gestalt History
Gestalt Basics
Gestalt Concepts and Principles
Gestalt Comparisons
Gestalt Roles and Techniques
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Who Developed Gestalt Therapy?
Fritz Perls and his wife Laura Perls
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What is the Primary goal of Gestalt therapy?
Individual awareness.
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Gestalt believes that our mental world can differ from our physical world based on what?
Perception
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What does Client-Centered Therapy and Gestalt mainly have in common?
Use of active listening skills/Emphasis on the client/therapist relationship.
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Is it the Therapists or Clients role to “take responsibility for feelings”?
Clients Role.
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What type therapy did Fritz Perls begin with?
Freuds Psychoanalytic Therapy.
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Gestalt is a _______ type of therapy?
Existential Therapy
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In Gestalt it is believed that our minds have a tendency to complete ______?
Incompleteness./ Turn incomplete objects into whole objects.
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What is the main difference between the Gestalt and Psychoanalytic Therapies?
Focus. EX. Gestalt = Here and Now. Psychoanalytic = Past and Childhood experiences.
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What is good example of Gestalt in the human services field?
Mindfulness, Animal Therapy, or Guided Visualization.
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Name one of Fritz Perls moments of unfinished business”?
Either Rejection by Freud or adversity at home/school/professional life.
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Gestalt Therapy operates primarily in the _________?
Present Tense/Here and Now
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Instead of explaining, justifying, judging or manipulating Gestalt believes one should?
Express.
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What theory is Gestalt a revised version of?
Psychoanalytic Theory, Sigmund Freud.
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A Gestalt Therapists role is to Facilitate self-______ in the client?
Awareness.
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What was the previous name of Gestalt therapy?
Concentration Therapy
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4. Gestalt emphasizes one’s ability to take _________?
Take responsibility of behaviors, thoughts and feelings.
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According to Gestalt Psychologists all of our experiences progress through a sequence of stages called?
The Contact Cycle.
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How are dreams used differently in Gestalt compared to Psychoanalytic therapy?
Gestalt does not interpret dreams but lets clients experience aspects of the dream in the “now”.
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What is a technique used by Gestalt therapists that is controversial in other therapies?
Self-disclosure.
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What institute did Fritz Perls establish?
South African Institute of Psychoanalysis.
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Gestalt Therapists avoid these types of questions because they explain away behavior?
“Why” questions, instead they focus on the how and what.
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In Gestalts theory of figure-ground what is in our center of awareness?
Figure
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Like Client Centered Therapy, Gestalt takes a ______ approach/perspective?
Humanistic.
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Why do Gestalt therapists encourage the use of “I” statements over “it”?
“I” statements facilitate ownership and responsibility for feeling. AND “it” statements place ownership elsewhere.